[mythtv-users] Check for active Recordings or Jobs?
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Sep 25 18:41:22 UTC 2007
On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:44 AM, James Pifer wrote:
> I use mythrename.pl and I have it modified for my purposes. It's all
> well and good, but I'd like to run it more often. Right now I run
> it at
> 1AM. I'd really like to run it after each recording or maybe every
> hour,
> but only if no user jobs are running and no recordings are active.
>
> Is there way to check for active recordings and jobs?
mythshutdown -c
Honestly, it's never returned any data for me ever, but some people
say it works. :)
> Is there a way to run mythrename.pl as a global post recording job?
Set it up as a user job then you can by default assign the user job
to all new recordings.
> (honestly I have not looked through the menus for this)
> Other suggestions?
You could use a cron job instead of a user job if you prefer that.
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